Perfidious Albion en · PROPN
Etymology
Calque of French perfide Albion. First coined by French poet and playwright Augustin Louis de Ximénès at the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars.
Meanings
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(derogatory, qualifier:poetic or international relations) The United Kingdom, seen as a country that is manipulative, deceptive, or treacherous on the international stage.
Vice-President Dick Cheney viewed the move by Britain—“perfidious Albion,” as he put it—as “a stab in the back,” according to a former senior intelligence official.
2009 March 30, Dick Cheney, quotee, “Albion, I stab at thee”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
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Translations (3)
fr perfide Albion (pejorative phrase referring to the United Kingdom) · fa انگلیس پرتدلیس (pejorative phrase referring to the United Kingdom) · fa انگلیس پرتلبیس (pejorative phrase referring to the United Kingdom)